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[Android Software Development] sveilien:
It's known that the EVO's video recording bitrate is low, but what seems less known is that the audio for the EVO's video's are encoded at 8kHz using (what seems like) the AMR telephony codec. Hence, the audio sounds like crap.

As I know nothing about Android software development, I just wanted to ask if its even possible for a real developer to A) mod the current EVO's video recording app to have better A/V encoding or B) develop a 3rd party camcorder app for the EVO have has better or adjustable quality settings?
[Android Software Development] dc13:
for use that have the samsung moment we added things in the build.prop and changed the code there if you guys have the same thing you can try that. im not sure.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aroy002:
I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was missed. I am the type of user who likes to use the phone at full brightness, as it does not seem to have a huge negative impact on my battery life in day to day operations.

I was looking carefully at the browser on the Galaxy and wondered why the whites looked so dimmed in comparison to other parts of the operating system.

I had already done the following:

1. Turned the OS brightness all the way up.

2. Turned browser brightness all the way up.

3. Disabled the screen power saving mode.

I then downloaded a flashlight application and maxed it to 100% while switching to the browser with the Home key multitask, and going back and forward between the flashlight app and the browser app, it is very clear that the browser is not pushing max brightness. Even though the brightness settings on both the OS and the browser are maxed, it seems as though the browser is capped to 80% brightness or so.

My friend also verified this during his test run, as he has just bought the Samsung Vibrant and noticed the same thing. I understand many will just leave the auto-brightness setting on, but that's not really addressing the issue here.

Is there a way for an XDA developer to correct this issue through a patch or ROM?

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darksnarfer:
I checked with the shell and when brightness is at 100% it has an absolute value of 255, the same when I'm at the browser set with full brightness, so it seems it's working as it should.

You can check it with this command

cat /sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/blacklight/s5p_bl/actual_brightness
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INeedYourHelp:
I don't know, I experience the same thing as the OP. Everything's bright, except when surfing the web.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elbasso:
Same issue here. I use Opera in bright daylight.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scotolsen:
If you go in to the brightness settings there is an option at the very bottom called "Power saving mode". I'm not sure if that is having any effect on the browser.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aroy002:
Thanks for the numbers, but I gotta say, just comparing the flashlight app and hitting the back arrow to toggle to the browser, it is beyond obvious that the browser is not as bright as the flashlight application. I used google with it's white background and zoomed in to an area that was just white to avoid other distractions.

This is the best way to test since there will be no transition in between the application toggle and you see the screen dim easily.

As indicated by my original post, I have also turned off the power saving feature so that is not a concern. Someone did say that the Behold 2 has the same cap for their browser and that this is a samsung specific setting that's probably there to save battery. I haven't been able to confirm it on that phone yet but just give the flashlight test a chance and you'll see.

oh one last thing i noticed is, when going from the browser back to the flashlight, sometimes the flashlight app is also dimmed at the same level brightness as the browser, but tapping the screen 'wakes' up the app into full brightness.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartonJ:
TGalaxy browser brightness

To me it's very obvious that the browser is dimmed down, I'd say more than to 80%... Having google as the default homepage couldn't make it more obvious when opening the browser! Samsung obviously thought that no one with a decent eyesight will buy their phone. Or anyone who feels capable of managing their phone's battery life themselves.

It's just one of those niggling things that had to be included, lessening the experience of an otherwise rather breathtaking phone. Another one is the compulsory vibration when charging is finished - makes me wonder when others, or the developers for that matter, charge their smartphones! I charge them overnight, and of course every night... or at least used to, as with the Galaxy S, I can no longer sleep.

I think I've been through every menu possible to change these couple of features, with no success... if anyone knows anything, please share.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbfisher:
It happens on the dim-side, too

I have the same problem, but on the dim side. The browser brightens the screen when it comes on if you have the brightness set to zero. I like it dimmed all the way at night if I'm reading in bed when the lights are out and my partner is asleep, but it keeps turning it up so it's pretty bright in the pitch dark. Arrgh. It's my phone, can't I set it the way I want? Grr.

I've read that there are limitations on how much the screen dims and brightens unless you have a rooted phone and you use an app that's not built into the OS.

I rooted mine and there are some configuration apps that will set it to 0, but I think the built-in operating system slider doesn't go all the way to zero and might not go all the way to 255 when you slide it to the very edges. Supposedly it only goes to 10 on the low side from the notes on some apps.

So, probably it's a similar limitation on the slider for the screen brightness in the browser. We're probably stuck with this problem until someone writes an app that lets you change this setting to any value between 0 and 255 since the default sliders don't allow the low side and I'm guessing not the high side either.

So . . . any android developers out there, it would be cool if you could make an app to change this setting if it's available programatically somewhere.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacksome:
I tried the "Dimmer" and "Brightness!" apps from the market. But none of them 'Keep' the brightness at the minimum always.
[Droid X General] phoneshit:
So i doubt this helps any, or if its already on here some place, but i just left the verizon store. After some shmoozing i was able to extract that # #program loads up the eptm? Menu for the droid x. Default password 000000 as usually. Now here's my question, on old phones i was able to make it look like my tethering was phone usage, any way to do that now? Haven't got a chance to play with the menu yet as i'm walking back from the VZN store. Also, reason i was there in the first place the new "update" crapped out my phone kept restarting an fcing freezing...
[Droid X General] Breakthecycle2:
What?

10char
[Droid X General] phoneshit:
Epst menu. Dial# #program hit send
[Droid X General] jdkoreclipse:
What is espt?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Ruki_Uki:
I just got my EVO today and I downloaded handcent for messaging and when I go into the settings the LED flash setting aren't available there to set. It shows the settings and shows its checked off to to flash for notifications but I can't select the settings. Is this a app problem, an EVO thing? Anyone else with this problem?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] redrazr7791:
Simple...ditch Handcent and get ChompSMS :D

ChompSMS IMHO is 100% better then Handcent. LED notifications work, easy to setup and understand.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Ruki_Uki:
I just noticed the LED does blink, I just can't access the settings. Does the EVO have a multi colored LED? I'm going to guess probably not.

Sent from my Supersonic EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] redrazr7791:
I do not think it does...just one color LED flash.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Joshr:
I believe it is a dual color LED, red and green. Green for notifications/fully charged, orange (green and red together) for charging, and red for low battery.

I haven't messed with any LED notification settings in Handcent but mine flashes green when I get a message.

I wish it would flash while it was charging though...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Ruki_Uki:
Mine flashes green with the messages,along with the Orange and red for the battery. Maybe those options are locked cus we don't have the led'sthst change color. Which sucks because you would think with such a high tech device they would add it.

Sent from my Supersonic EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] redrazr7791:
I forgot, but I am colorblind so all I see is one color :o:(
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Joshr:
Looks like I'm wrong about the red part. My phone is on low battery right now and is flashing orange. So I guess it just has green and orange? Green + red definitely don't make orange too, I never did pay attention in art class...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Sprockethead:
Handcent is awesome. You might have conflicting settings with the normal messaging app. Any time you install a replacement SMS app, you have to be sure to turn off all notifications in the original messaging app. Otherwise it gets quirky.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] spyy420:
I'm having the same issue. I'm pretty sure when I first got my EVO, the LED would blink blue when I told it to, but I can't be 100% sure. However, Handcent sent out there usual bi-weekly update and then it would only flash green, PLUS the settings for LED were greyed out and unavailable to even change. So I just lived with the green flashing hoping they'd make an update.

I think it was Tuesday this week, they send out another update and the settings were ungreyed so I thought they had fixed it. I set it to flash blue, but instead, it won't flash at all now. Today I check and there was ANOTHER update to Handcent so I downloaded it and the setting are back to being greyed out, but it still doesn't blink at all.

Like I said, I'm pretty sure I saw it blink blue when I first got the EVO (and all this stuff worked great on my G1), but I know for sure that it blinks green, orange and red. If the battery goes to extremely low and starts popping up the low battery warnings, the light flashes red. When its charging, it's orange.

Hope they get this fixed. Just wanted to chime in because its not some setting or something that we are overlooking; pretty sure its the app.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Bielinsk:
It has a green and red/orange LED. No other colors.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Ruki_Uki:
I haven't noticed a blue blink,

but I got the same thing with the updates, and for the brief moment when it wasn't grey and could play with the settings, it was set to blink blue, but blinked green.

Sent from my Supersonic EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Welcome to my theme! Here are some screens! Thanks for looking!

​

[YOUTUBE]bHwVfcqxkjM[/YOUTUBE]​

Just looking for opinions, and, if you guys want, I'll put it as a flashable zip when I'm done.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] norkoastal:
Great Start on this theme..

I do think that the red is a bit too saturated on the homepage (especially the clock background). The icons are spot on though.. Perhaps an option of different red/black wallpapers might suit those not looking for a bear junping out of the screen.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Ok cool, duly noted! It's weird though, because on the phone itself, the res is a LOT brighter on the homepage than it is in those screenshots. I really don't udnerstand why it's doing that... the bottom taskbar red though, is about right.

Now, could you help me with my question about the phone icon on the front page?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Can someone PLEASE help me with this?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
Hey man, phenomenal work. I'd love for you to release this when you're done, I'll eat it up!

In terms of help, I know themeing and the file structure so what do you need help with? Which file are you looking for? If it's the phone icon on the bottom launcher bar, I'll tell you where that is in just a second...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
Okay, give me one second and I'll find it for you. I'm 99% sure I know where it is..
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
Okay so I found it!! That bottom launcher with the phone icon is located in /system/app/Rosie.apk. I'm sure you know you have to extract Rosie.apk so after you've extracted it open up the Rosie folder and navigate to /res/drawable-normal-hdpi the phone icon is "icon_p_phone_on" and "icon_p_phone_rest"

I hope that helped. For anything on that bottom bar, definitely look in /system/app/Rosie.apk. For status bar stuff and UI images, you'll want to edit files in /system/framework/framework-res.apk and /system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk. To get a good idea of theme structure and where specific files are, I'd recommend downloading DetoxBlues Theme or Aloysius. I use those for reference when I want to make my own flashable theme.

Perhaps this is worthy of me getting that amazing wallpaper a tad early :) haha just playing
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Straight up, if this works, I've got something even better than my wall for you...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
Amazing! It most definitely should work. If it doesn't, I'll search around for you. But I'm pretty positive that's the icon you want. Let me know how it goes my man
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Perfect!

You sir, are a saint, and, I'm glad u went out of the way to find that for me. Damn man... good, good stuff.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
Hey man, not a problem at all. I'm just glad I could help you and it looks even better now. I went out of my way since you helped me. Aside from the Star Wars Darth Vader video saying "NOOOOO" (I LOLed when watching it), what is this "something better" that you got for me?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
I'll link it in this thread. Just give me a lil' bit to finish it
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
Sweet. I'll check back in a little. BTW, is that flip clock one of the stock HTC Sense Clock widgets or is it from the market? I know you skinned it, but I can't figure out where it's from.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
It's Digiclock from the market.

And here you go:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
That's hot man. Would you mind putting my name, "Mack," instead of putting "Jabbawalkee"? I think my name Mack is pretty cool and would look a bit better there :) thanks bro
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5416/mackwall.png
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jabbawalkee:
Thanks again. Another great wall from Mr. Duckett. Keep up the good work. If you got any more questions with themeing structure, I'm happy to help. My Photoshop skills aren't the best, but I understand everything else very well
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Hell yea. If I would've known you were that versed with this, I would've jsut PMd you as soon as it came up, rather than waiting hours for an answer.

thanks again man.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Updated screens!
[General Topics] blud7:
Hi people. I'm thinking about replacing my Milestone with a Nexus One. Thoughts?
[General Topics] blud7:
Never mind. Got me a desire for $90 US less.
[General Topics] nikko1000:
yea

you probably should get the nexus one, because its a lot better than the milestone....but when you get it... give me the milestone :)
[Captivate General] chvybeatsford:
1. Gps. Connected once but since then just uses cell tower. Inside our outside with the longest i let it try to connect would be 10mins while sitting on porch.( no roof on porch clear sky and all.

2. Face book sync. Set to every hour but if it does it on its own it has error. But i i reselect sync it works.( samsung contacts face book ) not the Marketplace app.

3. Volume is very low. My iphone was louder than this phone.I checked all settings and turned to max. Barley can hear it when it in my hip case.

4. No matter what i set the Email notification ring to it just uses the Call ring. Again this is with the Email app not gmail app. Changed the setting from withing email but wont play what i select.

5. Wont play any of my 1080p MKV.( seen post elsewhere that they played avatar 1080p) Will play a 720p i have but wont play sound just video. Thats with 2 diff samples...

6. I get notifications saying ill have xx number of email. But when i go to email there is nothing new, even if i click the actual notification . Either way i check the email either apps or browser. Very weird. Gmail email.

Phone is stock with no Root installed but do have the Launcher app instead of touchwiz ui.

If u have any of these problems or have a solution please post. :Love the phone hate the problems.. Wish some one else around me had this phone so i could at least tell if mine is just a lemon or its what ill have to deal with.
[Captivate General] jhannaman82:
Having trouble using to open G Cisco Wifi APs at work. Connects fine, sometimes works, majority of the time says connected and shows IP but wont give data to any applications.

Poor battry life

Low ring/notification volume.

Hoping these issues can be resolved :-(

Trying to decide if I'm keeping it, love all other aspects of the phone so far. Havn't attempted MKV playback.

Video recording is great, camera is good but may leave some to be desired :shrugs:
[Captivate General] labbu63:
i wouldnt worry much most of those are just software issues
[Captivate General] LinuxNewb:
My captivate hasnt had any problems with GPS yet but ive read of some who have. Try this trick to enable Skyhook

h**p://androidpolice.com/2010/07/20/samsung-t-mobile-vibrant-att-captivate-galaxy-s-series-phones-not-without-their-own-signal-problems-major-gps-issues-emerge-for-some/

(make sure u replace * with t)

Facebook sync just sucks ass. A buddy with an HTC Evo 4G has problems with it and the FB app sucks pretty bad compared to iPhone.

As far as battery drainage mine is doing pretty darn good. Check out Android System app. Its free and under tasks itll tell you what cpu usage is being taken up and u can monitor ur battery life.

Are you running FW 2.1-Update1.

And as far as volume I have no complaints on mine (switched over from 3g iPhone)

As far as the weird email xx counter, i'd remove all your accounts and then set up the default email app as an exchange server for your gmail.
[Captivate General] PersonOfKnownOrigin:
Calibrate Accelerometer

Posted on AndroidForums with no results...

I tried playing Raging Thunder (driving game) and my car pulls badly to the right. Also, tried the "Bubble" leveling app and when it shows my phone to be level I'm clearly holding it at an angle.

My friend has the HTC Incredible and he can do a quick accelerometer calibration by placing his phone on a flat level surface and hitting a calibrate button. Can't find any such tool on the Captivate. Anybody?
[Captivate General] madjsp:
I had no problem playing a720p movie on my captivate. Sound and video both work.
[Captivate General] Bjd223:
I saw a bunch of number sequences you can dial to get into all kinds of crazy menus. If there is no way to do it in the settings you might be able to do it from one of those setting screens.

Not sure where I saw it. It was on XDA around here somewhere I'll see if I can find it for you.
[Captivate General] labbu63:
maybe he downloaded a app or something you should ask him or like wat bjd223 said
[Captivate General] cowballz69:
Phone gets super hot while charging and if your using the phone while charging the percentage doesn't move at all, think that's an hardware issue?
[Captivate General] chvybeatsford:
The xx where just taking place of Say 1 new email or 2 new email poping up. Sometimes it 4. No "x" show it was just ment as a random number amount.

Newest update as far as i know. 2.1 and i hit check for update and there was none.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Djlevy:
I used Rom Manager to install bugless beast and in the start up screen it just keeps resetting. I see the android thing being drawn out in animation constantly, and nothing else is happening. What do I do?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crackbone:
okay, were you NAND unlocked?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krizno:
Did you do a factory wipe and dalvik cache wipe pryor to installing to stop the boot loop take the battery out did you back up your nand prior to the flash if so take the battery out then get into recovery and restore your nand backup

"evo you look good won't you back that nand up, damn that rom is fine won't you back that nand up, dude that's a sweet theme won't you back that nand up, what a cool lock screen won't you back that nand up"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
hands down the best post i've come across on xda... also, very true.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedoubbledonkey:
best thread title i've come across although unfortunate.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Djlevy:
I used unrevoked 3. That's all. I apparently should have NAND it first, I'm assuming. What should I do to get my old rom back?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerryparid:
Boot into recovery (down volume + power).

Wipe call caches and factory reset

Flash Buglessbeast
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcmac77:
Consult Wiki

Have you consulting the wiki that toast has compiled? The link is found in the first sticky post in this EVO Dev forum.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikedick:
Hopefully you did a Nandroid backup. Just factory wipe/dalvik/cache and restore.

If you didnt, dunno what to tell ya man. Better hope there's a trick to it, maybe use the search function.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedoubbledonkey:
what rom were you using previously and is the zip for that rom still on your sd?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Djlevy:
The previous rom I was using was the stock rom. I did hit backup rom when I was installing it. Now the system has finally started up, but now I'm trying to go through the google settings, and it keeps crashing the phone on step three, and I can't work my way around it, unfortunately.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedoubbledonkey:
stock rom with root? do you have the zip file for the stock rom?

did you try what others suggested and wipe dalvik/cache/data factory reset and try re-flashing bugless or any other rom on your sd?